S. Shyam Sundar - Penn State Personal Web Server

Sundar— 28 of 54 Invited Presenter and Panelist in a session entitled “Unplugged: Disconnecting from Social Media” at the Social Media Summit, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (September, 2011), Harrisburg, PA. Invited speech entitled “Society 2.0: Personal and Social Agency in the Age of Interactivity” at conference on Internet and Society: Challenge, Transition and Development organized by the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University (May, 2011), Beijing, China. Keynote speech entitled “Living Interactively and Sharing Ubiquitously” at the 5 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication organized by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICUIMC 2011) (February, 2011), Seoul, South Korea. Keynote speech entitled “The Psychology of Convergence: New Environments, New Meanings” at the Future Technology Research Association’s World Convergence Conference (FTRA WCC 2010) (December, 2010), Gwangju, South Korea. Keynote speech entitled “Media Effects 2.0: How Technology Shapes Meaning in Mediated Communication” at the Conference Universitaire De Suisse Occidentale module of the Doctoral Programme in English Language and Literature (November, 2010), La Gruyére, Switzerland. Keynote speech entitled “Modeling User Engagement with New Media: Challenges and Opportunities” at 11th annual conference of the Communication Association of China at Peking University (July, 2010), Beijing, China. Invited speech on “Social Psychology of ICT Use” for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Urban Development forum at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai (May, 2010), Ningbo, China. Invited presentation entitled, “Psychology of Robot Morphology” in the workshop entitled, “Interaction Science Perspective on HRI: Designing Robot Morphology” at the 5 th annual ACM/IEEE conference on Human-Robot Interaction (March, 2010), Osaka, Japan. Invited presentation entitled “Tweeting, Digging, Blogging: Communication in the Age of Interactivity” at the Research Unplugged Discussion Series hosted by Research PennState: http://www.rps.psu.edu/unplugged/fall09/november18.html (November, 2009), State College, PA. Invited brownbag presentation entitled, “Message in the Medium: How Interfaces Influence User Psychology” at the Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University (September, 2009), Seoul, South Korea. Invited colloquium presentation entitled “Message in the Medium: How Technology Shapes Meaning of Online Content” at the Department of Communication, Seoul National University (June, 2009), Seoul, South Korea.

Sundar— 29 of 54 Invited presentation entitled “A Media-Effects Approach to Interaction Science” at the First Annual Symposium on Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University (May, 2009), Seoul, South Korea. Invited colloquium presentation entitled “Message in the Medium: How Technology Shapes Meaning of Online Content” at the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, PennState University (February, 2009), University Park, PA. Invited brownbag presentation entitled, “Customization and Personalization in Health Websites” to the Health Communication Research Group at the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, PennState University (January, 2009), University Park, PA. Invited Panelist for a research panel session entitled “Theory in Journalism & Mass Communication Research: Using It, Building It, Testing It” at the 91 st annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (August, 2008), Chicago, IL. Consultation to Joint State Government Commission for Task Force on Violent Interactive Video Games, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (June, 2008), Harrisburg, PA. Invited talk entitled “The Effects of New Media on Communications” at Communicators Conference, Department of Public Information, PennState University (May, 2008), University Park, PA. Invited Panelist for a panel session entitled “The New Digital Age—How It Affects Our Communications” at the Board of Visitors Meeting of the College of Communications (April, 2008), PennState University, University Park, PA. Invited talk entitled “Internet Affordances Drive Uses and Gratifications” at “Raising the Ante: The Internet’s Impact on Journalism Education and Existing Theories of Mass Communication,” a symposium in honor of Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, at the University of North Carolina (March, 2008), Chapel Hill, NC. Invited talk entitled “The Role of Technology in Health Communication” at the 2 nd annual PennState Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Retreat (January, 2008), Hershey, PA. Invited brownbag presentation entitled “Can the Interface affect Perceptions of Information Quality and Credibility? A Cognitive Heuristics Approach” to the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group, College of Information Science & Technology, PennState University (November, 2007), University Park, PA. Invited Panelist for a professional freedom and responsibility panel session entitled “Authorship: Best and Worst Practices in Academia” at the 90 th annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (August, 2007), Washington, DC.